About “Stan”

In this song, Eminem corresponds with a crazed fan who becomes increasingly unhinged as the story progresses. This is one of his best received songs of all time, even placing at #15 on VH1’s top 100 hip-hop songs of all time.

There was a verse where [Stan] got out of the water. He escaped and came to my house to kill me. Then I had to kill him first, [but] I missed him, and he was in the hospital for like 3 weeks. Then he was pissed off that I didn’t write him get well cards, so he came to kill me again, and in the last verse finally I just blew his head off.

In 2013, Eminem released a follow-up, in the form of “Bad Guy”, wherein Stan’s younger brother, Matthew, avenges his brothers death.

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Who plays Stan in this song's music video?

Devon Sawa, who also had roles in Casper, Now and Then, and Idle Hands.